Fatal Invention

Hailed as “essential reading” by Danny Glover and “a triumph!” by Harriet Washington, a groundbreaking critique of an emerging racial science, by the award-winning author of Killing the Black Body

“This is the best book of the year. . . . If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make it this one.” —The New York Journal of Books

This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race—revived by purportedly cutting–edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and “provocative analysis” (Nature) of race, science, and politics by one of the nation’s leading legal scholars and social critics.